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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Through the Ironwood Curtain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many treehouses are there, in total, in the Mauro village?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Seven.
(d) Seven hundred and fifty.

2. Why does a Sawi wife shave her head?
(a) Because of lice.
(b) Because it customary for a bride to have a shaved head.
(c) Because it would show how wise she was.
(d) Because her husband has died.

3. What does eating flesh for the first time mean to Sawi children?
(a) It means that they no longer belong to the tribe.
(b) They are crossing a major threshold necessary to known the ultimate essence of their existence.
(c) It means that they will someday go to heaven and be an angel.
(d) It means they are now an adult.

4. What do the Sawi warriors do when they meet Don Richardson and John McCain for the first time?
(a) Most of the warriors faint and have to be revived with camphor.
(b) They panic, many of them leaping out of the canoes; everyone trembling.
(c) They stand in their canoes completely and totally still.
(d) They launch an attack of arrows.

5. Why do the elders Kigo, Hatu and Numu volunteer to make contact with the Tuans?
(a) The elders are confused and don't know what they are doing.
(b) These elders have learned some of the Auyu language and think maybe that is what the Tuans speak.
(c) The elders are forced by their tribesmen to do this.
(d) The elders are near death anyway and think they have little to lose

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Tuans give the elders who come out to meet them for the first time?

2. Do the Sawi warriors bring weapons with them to Pirimapun?

3. Why does Yae's wife, Kautap, throw his stone ax in the river when she hears that her husband has been murdered?

4. What is the ancient Sawi custom of "waness"?

5. What part of the human skeleton do Sawi children play with?

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